ANGELA waits for quiet and the crowd to sit.ANGELA (CONT’D)Well hasn’t it been a marvellous week? To look out here and see so many of your welcoming faces just warms my heart - it really does. The Secretary of State for Internal Affairs is indeed correct when he says that we are a very good-looking party. We’ve laughed this week, we’ve cried, we’ve booed, we’ve hissed, but most of all we’ve been together on everything. We’ve faced troubles head-on and, hopefully, along the way made some new friends. We are a party that is not afraid to disagree. It is welcomed in this party with open arms. We are a party of democracy. A fairer party for a fairer way.

APPLAUSEANGELA (CONT’D)I think that now is time that I have to mention someone who is the darling of us all. Our glorious Prime Minster is about to leave us with his head held high and the party in the best spirits it has ever been. Thank you, Prime Minister from all of us, your grateful friends. We salute you. We cherish you.

ANGELA blows a kiss off screen.

LOUD APPLAUSE. The AUDIENCE goes quiet. One LONE VOICE shouts ‘I LOVE YOU, ANGELA’. Probably staged. ANGELA (CONT’D)And I love you. All of you. This is what this new party is all about. Love. Love and more love. Understanding through a fairer way.

CHEERS.ANGELA (CONT’D)For the right people, obviously.

LAUGHTERANGELA (CONT’D)If you play ball with us, we’ll play ball with you. If you challenge us, we will challenge you. If you seek to destroy us, we WILL destroy you. Rest assured. For too long we have let those who despise us, ride rough shod over us as a people, over us as a nation. This is not the last of Britain. This is not the last of this island. This is only the beginning. The start. The birth and rise of the New British Party.

LOUDS ROARS.ANGELA (CONT’D)This is a Christian nation and as such, we as a party will not tolerate any other flavours of worship. This is a Christian nation and we as a party, as a nation, will not bow to extreme forms of prayer and worship. You know who you are. We are coming to get you.

CHEERS.ANGELA (CONT’D)If you play fair with us, we will play fair with you. A fair nation, supported by a fair people, for a fairer way. The only way. You steal from us and we will shut you down.

The AUDIENCE have heard this phrase before. Chants of “SHUT YOU DOWN! SHUT YOU DOWN!”.ANGELA (CONT’D)It is no secret, my friends as I have already hinted at my good news with my many close and intimate friends, on numerous occasions. As so today, I tell you my friends that I intend before the next election, to stand for leadership of this party and in turn, to be the next Prime Minster of this great and blossoming land. CHEERS

ANGELA (CONT’D)We did not start all of this but we will not stop it either. People are dying out there and we have to make choices. Real choices. Who should survive? Let God be their judge. Who should survive? Let God feed and house them, there is no benefit system, no social catch-all. If you do not have the means to survive then.....

ANGELA cups her hand to her ear. The AUDIENCE respond. AUDIENCELET THEM GO! LET THEM GO!

ANGELAPlease, show some compassion. You may say that but ‘I couldn’t possibly comment’.

More cheering. ANGELA touches her heart. ANGELA (CONT’D)We will not talk of the dark times we have faced as a party, as a country, as a nation. We will not talk of the slogan our enemies have created. This is not the last of Britain and I will not talk of our once great friend from Uxbridge.

Booing

ANGELA (CONT’D)ENOUGH! Enough. I am sure he had his reasons. After all he was an honourable man. As we are all honourable men and women. Our forefathers meant well. They tried to support those who would require help, they tried to provide shelter for those in need - but as we all, yes all, have found out to our cost: they steal. These people. They stab us in the back. These people. We are better rid of them. These people. We ARE rid of them. We are a becoming a great nation once again. This is not the last of Britain. This is just the beginning. My friends - all my friends - please support us in any and every way you can - my beloved friends - We are the New British Party and we are not going away. We are here to stay.AUDIENCEThe New British Party!

ANGELA accepts the praise. She smiles, waves and points to unseen friends.

INT. ST. PETER’S HOME FOR THE AGED. EVENINGANGELA and her BODY GUARD enter the home. She takes a deep breath, then enters.

ANGELA(to Guard)Wait here.

GUARDMam.

ANGELA looks through the window of the room, to see her MOTHER sitting, staring out of the window. ANGELA SIGHS then enters.This tough woman becomes a little girl again, at least on her face.

Her mother runs her hand through her daughter’s hair. MOTHER (CONT’D)My little girl. How was school? Have you done your homework?

ANGELA kisses her mother. ANGELAOh Mum.

ANGELA gets up and walks around the room.ANGELA (CONT’D)All this was for you.

MOTHERSorry darling?

ANGELAAll of this, all the things I’ve done, were done - to impress you and now you don’t even know.

MOTHERTell your dad, I want to see him.

ANGELAHe’s dead, Mum.

MOTHERWho? Your Dad? Nonsense, I just spoke to him.

ANGELA is talking to her Mum and everyone.ANGELAYou and Dad asked me to study in school and I did. Then you wanted me to study at college, and I did. Stay away from men, you said, and I did. For a while. Now I may be about to run the country. Now I a may become the most powerful woman in the country, perhaps the world and I have no one here to share it.

MOTHERAre you being cheeky to your brother?

ANGELAI don’t have a brother, Mum. You did.

MOTHEROh, it was me, of course. I forget sometimes.

ANGELAI’ll know soon, if I am going to be like Margaret Thatcher, Mum.

MOTHEROh I remember her all right. Your father hated that woman.

ANGELAIf only you and Dad could have waited, held on. Just a bit longer.

MOTHERTell your Dad, I want to see him.

ANGELA gives up. The GUARD knocks and then enters the room.GUARDThe first returns are being announced, Mam. They want you back at central office.

ANGELA kisses her Mum and leaves.

INT. BUCKINGHAM PALACE. DAYThe Right Honourable ANGELA THORNE has become the second ever Woman Prime Minister in a land that is breaking up. She is here to inform the King (KING WILLIAM 5th) of her news.The KING is sitting, the door opens, he stands to welcome.

KING WILLIAMPlease sit.

ANGELAYour Majesty.

ANGELA bows her head but does not curtsy. She sits.

KING WILLIAMWelcome Prime Minister. How is the family?

ANGELAMy mother is holding on, I’m pleased to report. The Princes and Princess are well, I hope?

KING WILLIAMThey are with their mother and in the rudest of health.

ANGELAYour majesty is aware of the majority, my majority.

KING WILLIAMWe were informed.

ANGELAYour majesty, then, is also aware that we as the ruling party intend to dismantle the current establishment. It is a major promise to my people.

KING WILLIAMYour people? All the people? And when you say ‘dismantle’, you are referring to the Royal Family, of course?

ANGELIndeed....and all your many relations.

KING WILLIAMWe are sorry that you feel that way.

ANGELAI speak for the country.

KING WILLIAMWe are aware for whom you speak. Have you and your party a time frame for these actions?

ANGELAWe will dismantle, not destroy.

KING WILLIAMYou are compassion itself. We wonder what my Grandmother would have made of all this.

ANGELAHad your Grandmother been still on the throne, we would probably have never been forced to such an action. She was popular. KING WILLIAMUnlike the current King?

ANGELAThe rot, your majesty, started with your Father.

KING WILLIAMWe are aware of the country’s reflections on my Father’s reign. He was a most caring King.

ANGELAIf you say so, your majesty.

KING WILLIAMAre we to be asked to live in a council house?

ANGELAThat won’t be necessary, we only require that you remove yourself to one of your country estates. One of your private estates.

KING WILLIAMBalmoral for instance?

ANGELAIf that is amenable to both yourself and the family.

KING WILLIAMIn other words, we are to be banished?

ANGELAYou will be safe, I promise. We only wish to remove all icons of your kith and kin from the cities.

KING WILLIAMAnd you, will you inhabit the clothes of a president?

ANGELA smiles.ANGELAThe constitution demands that you will be advised of all Bills passed through parliament.

KING WILLIAMSo presidential in all but name?

ANGELAYour majesty, this farce was never going to last forever.

KING WILLIAMFarce?

ANGELAThis privilege. This accident of birth. Your anointment...

KING WILLIAMBy the Grace of God. By the Grace of God.

ANGELAIf you say so.....your majesty.

KING WILLIAMWe do. You intend to take on God as well?

ANGELAGod doesn’t believe in me, I am only reciprocating. I do not believe in God.

KING WILLIAMEven when you look in the mirror?

ANGELAYou open your eyes and I see a chink of the once favoured prince William. You were popularity itself, a long time ago. They wanted the throne to pass over your father to you.

KING WILLIAMWe were aware of the nation’s view of my father.

ANGELAAnd your mother?

KING WILLIAMWhat has she to do with this conversation?

ANGELAEverything.

KING WILLIAMWe do not understand.

ANGELAThose who support you, did not support your mother.KING WILLIAMAre you once again suggesting that she was ‘bumped off’? ANGELA has heard enough. She stands.

ANGELAForgive me for standing without permission, but I am a busy woman.

WILLIAM stands.

KING WILLIAMThen were are finished here. ANGELAYes, yes, you are. ANGELA turns her back on the KING and walks out of the room. bobbt stevenson 2014

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I was born in the West Coast of Scotland - a beautiful part of the world. Grew up in Paris, France and Woodstock, New York. I studied writing at college and gained a Masters. I wrote a short film 'Stealing Moses' which was selected by the British Urban Film Festival, 2015 and was supported by Channel 4. I have been selected to pitch at BAFTA, twice. I trained through TAPS at Emmerdale and The Bill.